Individuals
Seeing a therapist can make you feel vulnerable. From the beginning, you will be met with warmth and respect, and a commitment to your well-being and growth. Individual therapy can help you improve your mood, manage your anxiety, and build a stronger self-concept. With 25 years of experience, you can count on a responsive and empathic approach to your care.
In spite of their strengths, people usually seek help because something in their lives is not working. I help people seek solutions to whatever is keeping them stuck. Imagine what your life would be like, both internally and externally, if therapy were “wildly successful.” From this vision, we would work to establish goals—goals we can break down into small steps and actively work on.
- Between-Session Practice
If you have the time and energy, we will generate ideas for between-session practice, along with ways to track your progress. If you have too much on your plate already to do that, that’s okay too. - Identifying Barriers
We will analyze everything—your thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and environment—that blocks your forward movement, and then generate concrete, workable plans to get past these barriers.
We are creatures of habit. Change is hard. It is possible, but surprisingly, it’s not simply a matter of willpower. It comes about when we set up our lives so that enough variables are in place—internal ones (like realistic expectations, supportive thoughts, and helpful reactions to our own emotions) and external ones (like other people, deadlines, motivators, and structure)—to make change inevitable.
Exploring Past Experiences
For some people, distress may be connected to experiences or relationships in the past. In that case, it may be more useful to take time to fully unpack the details and emotions surrounding those events, to gain insight into how they impact you now. I will listen with compassion and help you recognize patterns of thinking and behavior that no longer serve you well.
Acceptance and Finding Peace
On the other hand, many things in our lives are beyond our control. Here, we would focus on acceptance, and on finding some measure of peace and quality of life in the midst of difficult circumstances.
Collaboration and Transparency
From the beginning, I will share with you how I am thinking about the work we are doing, and asking you for your feedback and input each step of the way.
By blending warmth, respect, solution-focused methods, deeper exploration of past experiences, and a commitment to acceptance around what cannot be changed, my goal is to help you create meaningful and lasting changes in your life.
Please contact me for a complimentary initial consultation, or to schedule your first session.
I welcome individuals of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions and abilities.